THE SCROLLS:

a traveling international arts project that asks the question, "Why?"

When:
Friday, May 12 – Sunday, July 14, 2006
Opening reception: Saturday, May 13, 2006 6-9 p.m.

Where:
Museum of Modern ARF
1116 N. Hudson St.
Arlington, VA 22201
703-528-4800
www.Modernarf.smugmug.com
Aaron@Modernarf.com

Contacts:
Local(DC): John Aaron, Director
Scrolls-Global: (SC)
Mary Walker, Founder
mwalker4588@earthlink.net


Who: 77 contributing artists from 4 continents

Why:
The Scrolls,” is an international discourse and “rolling” conversation amongst artists regarding the war in Iraq, including works by 8 Iraqi artists currently living in Bagdad. The exhibition also contains a scroll created by artists from Washington, DC and Arlington, VA. The exhibition asks the question “Why?” the War…Mary Walker of South Carolina sent a piece called “Why” to a number of her colleagues and asked them to add to it in the manner of a scroll. Seven scrolls were created; They opened at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, sponsored by the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs in 2005.

Cleveland-based artists Barbara Chira and Julie Friedman, organized the presentation of the Scrolls at Gallery West, Cuyahoga Community College/Western Campus, Parma, Ohio in early 2006.

The Scrolls make their debut in the Washington area at the Museum of Modern Arf in Arlington, VA.
May 12-July 14, 2006

The public reception is Saturday, May 13 from 6-9 pm and coincides with the return of the American Friends Service Committee’s “Eyes Wide Open” Memorial of Boots that commemorates the US Fallen. It returns to DC for the third time. “Eyes Wide Open” will be on the National Mall on 14th Street from May 11-14. This year, a new Memorial to the Iraqi children, women and men killed in the war will be unveiled as well.

Mary Walker, founder, curator and visionary of the Scrolls, will be in attendance at the May 13th reception, at Modern ARF
in addition to a number of the artists who contributed to the Scrolls.

The Museum of Modern Arf is the closest gallery
to a Metro stop in the Washington, DC area, across the street from the Clarendon Metro Elevator (Orange Line)